Old. Conservative. Christian. In love with my wife, our boys, Texas, America, Western Civilization, and Jesus. Sorry about the decline of newspapers.

May 22, 2017

THE SECULARIZATION of Europe is hardly any secret. Religion's long, melancholy, withdrawing roar, as Matthew Arnold put it, is a roar no longer, and hardly even a murmur.

In France, the oldest and most important daughter of the Church, fewer than 5 percent of the population attend Mass regularly. The English national church has long been an object of amusement and derision . . .

March 16, 2017

In 2004 Jim Webb wrote Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America. Though the 2016 presidential election was well over the horizon, Mr. Webb's book is a useful primer on what kept Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton out of the White House and what put Donald John Trump in.

March 3, 2017

THOMAS SOWELL, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and one of America's most important public intellectuals, retired from column-writing at the end of 2016. Here are snips from his last piece, "Random Thoughts, Looking Back: Avoiding the fatal mistake of disregarding the record of the past," nationalreview.com, December 27, 2016.

January 4, 2017

I shot it in early May in Pilsen, Czech Republic. The exhibit documents the seventieth anniversary celebration of the liberation of western Czechoslovakia by General George S. Patton, Jr.'s, Third Army in 1945.

The Democrats decided in the 1970s that they were going to abandon the working class and play identity politics, and the working class bit them. [Hillary Clinton] lost all the rust belt states. You really have to work pretty hard to lose the rust belt states if you’re a Democrat. So, they got exactly what was coming to them.

And all the lefties are worried that Trump is a right-wing demagogue. It’s insane – he’s a . . .